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Where did he find it?
1652 Pine Tree Shilling from the time of the English Civil war, one of the first silver coins minted in North America. Only the King in England had the right to coin money back then, but when King Charles I had his head cut off the colonists of Massachusetts Colony decided that without a king they themselves had the right to mint their own coins, this coin your friend found was one of them.